Conyth Little, The Black Thumb, first edition, 1943
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Little (Conyth [i.e. Constance & Gwenyth]) The Black Thumb

£160

London, Collins Crime Club, 1943.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

Set in an isolation hospital, where the sharp-witted nurse Norma Gale contends with someone – or several someones – inclined to take an axe to the furniture and, in due course, the occupants. “Conyth Little” is the portmanteau pseudonym used on the British editions for the Australian-born sisters Jessie Constance Little (1899–1980) and Norma Gwenyth Little (1903–85).

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Boards slightly softened at head of spine; jacket nearly price-clipped to inside front flap, small closed tear to foot of upper panel.

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